Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem like season two of The Idol is assured, so which may be dangerous information for Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Sam Levinson since they gained’t have a present to enact all their torture porn fantasies. Truly, Sam nonetheless has Euphoria, so by no means thoughts! Insiders have whispered to Page Six that the present will finish after season one due to Abel’s alleged “egomaniacal” conduct on set and the dismal evaluations which have known as the present “comically dangerous.” However one other supply says Abel may be very good–like an actual Canadian–and that the present’s destiny hasn’t but been determined. And HBO has backed up that supply’s declare.

Max (previously HBO Max) reportedly spent some huge cash on this bullshit since they scrapped the primary model of the present for reportedly being too girly. The Idol is a couple of troubled pop star named Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) who falls for a creepy cult chief, Tedros (Abel). And in order that story must be advised with the cult chief’s perspective in thoughts, I assume? And one present supply advised Web page Six that working with Abel whereas he was in character was “not a perfect expertise… and never one I am desirous to repeat,” and one other supply known as him “egomaniacal.”  Lily herself did say she would “steer clear” of him when he was within the groove so… However a unique supply denied that he was troublesome and known as him “beloved” by the solid and crew, saying, “He actually opened up his residence for the solid and crew. Virtually your complete present was shot inside his residence.”

No matter Abel’s alternative of method-acting antics, the scores haven’t been nice for the 2 aired episodes. The present debuted with 913,000 viewers, and episode two dropped 12% to 800,000. However hey, perhaps listening to Abel say: “Fucking stretch that tight little pussy,” in episode two will carry individuals in for episode three? After a Web page Six supply stated that The Idol can be finished after its first season, different sources claimed in any other case. Supply one:

However a supply advised Web page Six: “This was by no means meant to be a long-running present, it was all the time … a restricted sequence.”

Supply two:

A supply inside HBO, nonetheless, stated that “The door is unquestionably nonetheless open — it’s undoubtedly not a call [yet]. At this level, that is regular in our course of … we’re solely two episodes in.”

The supply added that HBO was not shocked by response to the graphic present, which airs on its Max streaming service. “It’s a Sam Levinson present, and you recognize what you’re getting with a Sam Levinson present…”

One other insider:

…The business insider stated The Idol was meant to be an enormous present for Max because it’s the primary main sequence on the freshly named streamer. “It was an enormous, large present for them with large expertise and quite a lot of buzz,” the insider added. “However from what I heard, HBO knew it was a little bit of a turkey as quickly as they noticed it.”

“However [now] you’ve all of the headlines–and that form of makes up for it.”

And again to supply two:

…The HBO supply stated, “The one one that makes the choice [about a second season] is the top of HBO, Casey Bloys, and he’s optimistic.”

HBO additionally denied they’d made any choices about The Idol:

It’s being misreported {that a} resolution on a second season of The Idol has been decided. It has not, and we sit up for sharing the following episode with you Sunday evening.

— HBO PR (@HBOPR) June 15, 2023

If I have been Casey, I’d drop these expectations as a result of I’ve seen hotter chemistry and higher performing on OnlyFans, sweetie. Miranda and Che Diaz cheating sex scene on And Just Like That… brought about me much less emotional injury than this nonsense. You may’t have two sequence on the identical streamer competing for essentially the most uncomfortable intercourse scenes!

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Meghan Markle’s Spotify podcast, Archetypes, constantly charted excessive and received a number of awards, despite the fact that I don’t know anybody in actual life who tuned in, even sarcastically. However it appeared like an ideal match for her since she might gather her flowers and do her girls’s activism factor by taking up honorable causes like giving Paris Hilton a platform to make clear that her entire dumb baby-voiced bimbo schtick was only a decades-long ruse on us dumb-dumbs. Nevertheless, Archewell Audio (consisting of Prince Harry and Meghan) and Spotify simply introduced that their $20 million partnership has ended. However reportedly, the Duke and Duchess haven’t produced sufficient content material to obtain the complete payout.

Netflix might be rubbing their slimy palms collectively like a fly on a fats pile of shit as a result of, based on Page Six, Harry and Meghan can have some extra time on their palms to make King-rankling docs of their 5-year/$100 million deal there since they’ll now not be spending time on the podcast.

In a joint assertion, Spotify and Archewell Audio mentioned they’ve “mutually agreed to half methods and are pleased with the collection we made collectively.”

The pair’s podcast, “Archetypes,” received’t be getting a second season regardless of launching on the prime of the charts final yr, a supply confirmed to The New York Publish on Thursday.

The information comes lower than six months after the present’s producer, Rebecca Sananès, revealed she was leaving amid uncertainty concerning the podcast’s future.

The insider added that the couple didn’t produce sufficient content material to obtain their full multi-million greenback payout.

And the notion of “Joe Rogan, you crazy” is rumored to have contributed to the dissolution of the partnership.

Whereas it’s unclear precisely why the duke and duchess determined to tug the plug on their Spotify deal, we’re instructed the pair began questioning their partnership after Joe Rogan — who can also be signed to the corporate — made controversial feedback concerning the COVID-19 vaccine on his podcast.

However a examine’s a examine, and suing actually everybody is dear, so if one other podcast platform comes alongside and dangles the correct amount in entrance of their faces, Archewell 2.0 isn’t out of the query.

“Meghan is constant to develop extra content material for the Archetypes viewers on one other platform,” an Archewell Productions spokeswoman added to The Wall Avenue Journal, which was the primary to report the information.

Although it looks like “Princess Pushy” hopes to tug a chocolate shroom and nitrous-plied Prince Harry alongside along with her as she turns into a Hollywood energy participant by no matter means WME Company deems needed–so long as it’s not performing.

“This deal is about making Meghan an influence participant in Hollywood,” the insider shared. “Regardless that she is, in fact, an actress, this isn’t about films or reveals for Meghan to star in, it’s about creating tasks for her to provide – she needs to run the present.”

Simply spit-balling, however I feel a Money Cab-style sport present hosted by Haz and Megs the place contestants within the backseat reply trivia questions concerning the British royal household whereas the cab’s “practically catastrophically” pursued by two vicious paparazzi on bicycles is the following logical step right here. We have to be entertained, and the loose-lipped, solemn victimhood route isn’t doing it anymore. Name me for extra, WME!

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Disney animation chief inventive officer Jennifer Lee capped an Annecy showcase by screening 20 minutes of unfinished footage of the upcoming animated musical “Want,” which is slated for launch this November. Cut up throughout two clips from the movie’s opening act, the footage launched feisty heroine Asha (Ariana DeBose) alongside antagonist King Magnifico (Chris Pine), and featured two all-new songs written by Julia Michaels.

At first we meet the headstrong teenager as she interviews to function sorcerer’s apprentice for the regal Magnifico, a so-called benevolent mage who guidelines over his Kingdom of Rosas by guarding and granting the numerous needs his topics supply to him in tribute. Solely the interview doesn’t fairly go as deliberate after Asha pulls down the glowing crystal orb that holds the want of her 100-year-old grandfather, begging the sovereign to grant it. No deal — Magnifico, it seems, claims his regal powers by hoarding.

Dejected, the heroine returns dwelling however finds herself unable to suit again in. She’s seen past the veil, and, newly conscious of the cynical ruse that governs her land, she flees the homestead and burst into tune – a really particular “I Need” tune that finds her wanting over acquainted sights with new disappointment. “So I make this want/to have one thing extra for us than this,” goes the chorus, and as soon as DeBose hits the crescendo a star alights within the night time sky, illuminating the entire kingdom.

The star goes by Star and resembles a marshmallow Peeps set ablaze. After following it to a forest mattress, Asha watches the Star shed gold mud on natural world alike, with every beneficiary abruptly capable of converse – and sing! “You’re a star,” sing an arboreal refrain that decision again the Grandmother Willow from “Pocahontas;” “You’re a star,” add the birds and the bears and Asha’s pet goat Valentino, who now boasts the pipes of Alan Tudyk; “You’re a star,” all of nature intones with one voice.

When the tune comes to shut, a doe turns to its pure predator and says, “thanks for not consuming me.” “Don’t point out it, Bambi,” comes the reply.

As Lee defined earlier than presenting the footage, “Want” was very a lot designed to mark and have fun Disney’s centenary, threading references and heartfelt homages into a contemporary throwback about wishing upon a star. As she launched the assorted characters that fill this magical new world, Lee slyly pointed to Asha’s prolonged buddy group – all seven of them, with every described by single adjective.

Directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn – who weren’t current for causes made clear by the decidedly unfinished nature of the footage screened – “Want” is hardly a wild hodgepodge of influences (for that, Disney followers want solely look the quick “As soon as Upon A Studio,” additionally due out later this 12 months). Above all, the inventive crew regarded to “Sleeping Magnificence” for legacy inspiration, even formatting this latest challenge with the identical Cinemascope side ratio final utilized by that 1959 milestone.

When imagining Asha’s household abode, manufacturing designer Lisa Keene took direct inspiration from idea work by Gustaf Tenngren and Kay Nielsen, two artists who actually helped set up the studio’s particular fairy-tale aesthetic within the Nineteen Forties, and when forging a singular visible type for this newest movie, the filmmakers blended watercolor backgrounds with CG characters, evoking the previous whereas trying to the long run.